Protect our future!

After talking about the sustainability challenge in class Monday, I started to think about all the thi

ngs I do and their affect on the environment. I thought about where I stood, and if I was doing well, or not. Taking in consideration the actions of others I feel I am at a descent standing because I do take part in “Green activities.” For exampl

e I recycle my water bottles, try to limit water usage and try and limit paper usage. I don’t like to waste paper so I recycle it or use it as scrap paper as many times as I can. Yet, with all this I still am not the greenest of people. I buy groceries and use plastic bags, even though I have the reusable green ones, but this is because I am very lazy. So now that I am doing this challen

ge I will try to focus more on the little things such as try to use the recyclable bags and keep the lights off in a room if I'm not in it. I believe that if I am able to keep doing little “green” activities such a

s these ones I will be able to turn it into a habit and they will build up and in the long run payoff making earth a healthier place for all.

Those Were The Days

I have many memories of when I was a kid, some obviously stand out more than others and the ones that do stand out more all seem to have one thing in common, they all take place in nature. It’s weird because I came down to this conclusion in class Monday when we reviewed E.B Whites reading of his memories when he was a child. All of his memories were also in outdoor environments just like the ones mine were in. These memories all bring back a sense of nostalgia and are the motivation for most of my writing, such as the essay I just wrote, which was about a photograph that brings back memories.

The memories that stand out the most are the ones of me as a kid just being wild. When I was younger I remember running around behind my house with a group of friends and we used play cops and robbers which always ended up with me covered in dirt because I would hide in the most unusual places I could think of. For example, once I hid between a huge bush and my neighbors shed and just sat there till the game was over. However, to get in that spot I had to crawl in all sorts of dirt and my jeans would just be annihilated, and yes I would get in tons of trouble, but now I can sit here and say these were the best days of my life and the memories that I will never forget.

Triumph

After hours and hours of reading and writing about Three Cups of Tea finally I have finished, and received a good grade for my essay on it. It took a lot of effort to put such work together but I can say I am proud of the time I put into writing this paper. I went to the writing center, something I never thought I would do, and I feel like that was a key point in my success. I learned that I needed to focus, and develop more certain areas of my essay such as connecting my statements back to my thesis and supporting them. The supporting details added to my statements help strengthen my writing. I also learned to expand on my writing; make it lengthier not just a few sentences cause that’s not a paragraph. However now that I have successfully completed my first paper and received a good grade I have set my next paper to have even higher goals. I plan on achieving an A on my next essay and to do so I plan on attending a workshop or two and going to the writing center. Though now I have a solid plan to do good on my next essay I wont achieve this goal if I don’t push myself so that will be key.

Polishing my Work

“Writing, Writing, Writing!” With all this writing I have to do in college I am beginning to see my flaws and what areas I need to work on. I have certain areas that I feel are weaker than others, and I plan to better my writing techniques by the end of this semester. For example I would like to enhance my writing by developing more my topics and not just stating them. Expanding upon my examples would make my writing stronger because it allows the reader to see that I can back up what I say and I'm not just making something up. To fix this I plan on attending writing workshops and/or the writing center. These two places will provide me with the tools I need to develop my writing and help me show what I'm saying to the reader and not just state it.

Can you Sense What I’m Saying?

The bumpy old yellow rocky road, surrounded by miles of lush green vegetation, covered in fog that left the night. You look left then right and all you notice is mountains towering high above what the eye can see. The smell of ripe oranges engulfs your nose and within seconds you can practically taste the sourness in your taste buds. And as the day passes your body shivers as night approaches. With dogs howling into the darkness you get a sense of loneliness out in this vast farmland your in, and all you do is cuddle into your warm feathery sheets and drift into the night waking up the next day to experience it all again.

A scenario like this one is one that I brainstorm about for my next essay because it represents where I come form. These are images are important to me; they show who I am and my heritage. Though it will be hard to describe, and allow the reader to feel as if he were there I am able to give more and put in a piece of me because I have been there and know how it feels to be in this environment.